Are you serious? It's not at all confusing!Don't you understand what was meant by that?! It's like saying "They might as well have taken him out of his cell and lynched him." In other words, that poster is saying that altho Bruno died in the electric chair, he was framed; witnesses gave perjured testimony; etc; with the idea not of seeking justice but of making sure he was killed for the crime under the guise of "justice was served." You got it now?

" it was still a lynching. Those were once legal too, you know? " I never knew that "lynchings were legal" !!! Where does it say that? Just because they happened doesn't mean they were "legal." Are... more

Maybe "perfect storm" would be a better description than "judicial lynching," which implies that Hauptmann was an innocent bystander. A cocky German defendant at a time (1935) of growing angst from... more

"A perfect storm. And OK...a judicial lynching as well." So, maybe we can now refer to it as a "perfect judicial lynching storm" ? There were so many "perfect storms" against Hauptmann - all over the ... more

Nice summary, Bob. Well done. I'm in the middle of Melsky's book, and he is starting to show that there was evidence of a second person involved in the crime, and that the police and detectives'... more

Richard, The frustrating part is that I had 3 editors. The last guy even corrected my footnotes! Of course that took me days to reverse. However, in the end, the publisher did not print the final... more

I was never satisfied that one person did it. The hard evidence could be photos of all the footprints, which Mike discusses. But the cops screwed up by not taking pics of all of them and protecting... more

Bob, Excellent post, yet I have questions and some issues to raise, and to ask them I have to play the Devil's Advocate for a spell. Where to begin? Okay: The Lindberghs were never home at Hopewell... more

Thanks, John. I'm less willing than you are to bet on long shots such as "whoever did the deed simply got lucky." I say that because Highfields was (is) located in such a remote spot that a kidnapper ... more

Well, Mike, I look forward to vol.2. I assume you have reached a conclusion as to who dunnit and that you'll be revealing it in Vol.2. or maybe you'll only tell us that it's still not a sure thing.... more